Wanted to try out some different ways of approaching environments. This particular approach I took is from Eytan Zana. The approach is not too foreign but its something I wanted to explore a little bit more. He recently posted some psd files from the massive black workshop . I was able to take a look at the layers and break em down and try my own attempt.

Since I took my time and kept all the layers I will post a tutorial soon of how I approached this painting

I've been working like that for a while its relaxingly systematic to take, feels like you spend more time considering the composition instead of worrying about fixing forms and details all at the same time.

Yeah, the pdf was really helpful! If you havn't already done it, you should watch Shaddy Safadis tutorials, they are amazing! (From what I caught he taught Eytan Zana? They are linked for sure) The only thing disturbing me is the interference between the shoft shadow and the light area in the foregroundrock. There should be some exaggerated saturation on the edge instead Otherwise, that would totally make a new focalpoint, and a strong at that :/ dunno